Illinois Supreme Court

There is a peculiar kind of blindness to the current renovation proposal for NTE, a strange zone of incomprehension, free of any of the pending financial problems facing the school districts, Cook County, and the state of Illinois. School administrators seem to be unable to apprehend certain irrefutable economic realities that need to be apprehended. They refuse to see the Big Picture. The world beyond their academic world. They're lost in a habitual state of hypnotic fixity on a state-of-the-art cafeteria et al niceties. I would like to break through that blockaded zone with a few of the unresolved financial problems that will have an impact on property taxes: (1) As reported by...

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